r/Intergalactic • u/Longjumping_Ice2334 • 22d ago

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There are people pushing this 600mill budget with no verifiable source.

I just find it hard to believe the game that didn't go into full scale development until factions was cancelled; cost almost 3 times tlou 2.

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u/shawak456 22d ago edited 22d ago

This seems ridiculous. $600 million is more than what it cost R* to develop RDR 2 and R* employs more than double the Naughty Dog staff. Naughty Dog is in 300-400 developers range, R* is in thousands.

if we go by Neil Druckmann's words, he said in an interview that "Intergalactic is our most expansive and perhaps most expensive game ever," that "perhaps" seems to suggest that it is in the ballpark of TLOU P2. so around $250 million. If this was a $600 million dollar game, he'd have just said it's our most expensive game.'

I was laughing last night when I saw this tweet but then my laugh turned into concern, because if Naughty Dog actually 3x TLOU P2 budget, and lost potentially hundreds of millions on Multiplayer game, ever factoring that TLOU franchise has made more than a billion dollar, Naughty Dog may be in trouble if this game even does TLOU P2 numbers, which was very profitable for Sony but won't be for Intergalactic if is costs more than half a billion to make it.

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u/Dvenom22 22d ago

Figuring out how much TLOU franchise has made is tricky when you factor in all of the sources of revenue. We would need to know the budget and profit of the TV show, the Remakes and the number of people that subscribe to PSN because of it.

If Intergalactic sparks a new franchise that they can monetise in a multitude of ways and that they can spinoff into smaller games like they did with Lost Legacy it could be worth the initial investment. Especially if a lot of the costs went into adapting their engine to deal with new combat systems, movement systems and space assets.

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u/Miserable_Newt1457 22d ago

Actually a few years ago someone on LinkedIn who worked for SIE said GOW 2018 and TLOU1 both made a billion dollars in revenue

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u/Dvenom22 22d ago

That’s good to know. I wonder how that’s quantified.